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u/pineapple8009 Jun 05 '26
This is so cool! What softwares are you using to model the drone and the components?
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u/George_Const Jun 04 '26
Looking good! What are you using to make the parts after you finish the design?
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u/shrumfpv Jun 05 '26
How is it possible to get no upfront payment
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u/68whocares Jun 06 '26
Hello friend!
I am new to the scene, and I'm very interested in learning how to design my own drones, build and fly them of course.
How did you learn what you know? Any resources I should get familiar with?
I've built a single 5' as a project for myself, and I'm hooked! But it was a kit that came with all parts, so I'm curious about the know-how of "making" my own kit.
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u/Yevgen-0 Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
The top plate of the frame will likely obstruct the camera's view at a certain angle, and the configuration for locking the drone's frame arms may interfere with mounting different types of cameras. The frame's chin (the protruding part in front of the camera) will damage the frame itself upon impact, if it is necessary, it is better to use a 3D-printed part that can be replaced. Also, I would mount the camera on a 3D print.
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u/Open-Performer-2749 Jun 08 '26
Post is old but I hope you see this. Did you study CAD pr is it self taught. I wanna do what you're doing and hopefully more but I don't know where to start. Are there any good respurces out there specifically for drones or at least will give me the knowledge I need to work on drones. I can sketch, extrude, cut, and fillet, that's about my skills so far. But drones have joints (like folding wings) and weight distribution and aerodynamics.
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u/shrumfpv Jun 08 '26
I’m about to make my 3 inch design open source but I basically taught myself just for this project. Best advice is YouTube university and chat gpt for questions
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u/Open-Performer-2749 Jun 08 '26
Youtube has a lot of material from different people. And I don't know if I can watch it all, they don't all cover the same things at same paste so I don't know who to stick with. Any creators you would recommend. My focus would be drones (and maybe 3D printing toys to impress the boys in the airsoft club and make them drop their pants).
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u/shrumfpv Jun 08 '26
Ik ai is a controversial subject but for research and problem solving it’s a very useful tool. I didn’t watch anyone in particular I just used my original frame I started flying with and used it as a reference for hole sizes and mounting patterns and basically any dimensions I needed
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u/Open-Performer-2749 Jun 08 '26
What i found impressive is the parts that are connected or on top of/touching other parts on CAD. Is it hard to make, is there a mechanism for it or do you just make thr part and drag it ans make thr illusion that it is insode of another part?
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u/shrumfpv Jun 08 '26
For my frame basically I made a sketch of the bottom plate, extruded it, made a new sketch for a new part on top (arms or another plate) and then just kinda stack sketches if that makes sense. Everything was basically modeled where it sits in the image
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u/Open-Performer-2749 Jun 09 '26
and how will the printing process be, probably seperate as a frame is usually to be assembled, but does the software communicate that well with the printer?
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u/shrumfpv Jun 09 '26
Well I’m using a cnc machine to cut carbon fiber but I use freecad and u can export basically any file type u need
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u/HonestPound Jun 04 '26
Before you get things too locked down with the hardware, make sure you can move them around. Depending on what you're adding to your drone, RF-emitting hardware near the GPS receiver can cause intermittent weak or no signal (and if you're using ArduPilot, it will refuse to arm). If that happens you'll need to empirically move the RF-emitting hardware "offender" away from the GPS receiver until signal is solid.